Word: bumpered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Columnist William White's testament to Lyndon Johnson is only one of a bumper new crop of books with political themes. Most of them are the works either of newsmen or ex-newsmen, all anxious to appeal to a public appetite whetted by prospects of next summer's national political conventions and the Big Day in November. A sampling: >The Big Man, Columnist Henry J. Taylor's novel about a Midwest lawyer who seeks his party's nomination for President. Taylor's man, Frank Killory, was obviously inspired by the late Wendell Willkie...
...transit. Shipped in boxcars, the coarse Russian mixture sometimes cakes so hard that it has to be broken loose with picks. Piled outside the station, it often lies forgotten through the winter, serving small boys as a toboggan slope. When a traveler once congratulated a rural stationmaster on the bumper wheat crop pressing in on the tracks, the embarrassed official explained: "First, there was this shipment of fertilizer that never got picked up. Then there was that shipment of seed grain that didn't get delivered. They just got together...
...wake of Continental's big deal, U.S. grain companies are now looking for a bumper harvest of Soviet orders. All told, the Russians are expected to buy 4,000,000 tons of wheat-150 million bushels-for some $300 million...
...award the department's citation for "exceptional bravery" to Secret Service Man Clinton J. Hill. It was Hill, assigned to protect Jackie since the day she became First Lady, who ran to the rear of the presidential limousine in Dallas after Kennedy had been killed, clambered onto the bumper and clutched Jackie's hand as she pulled him aboard...
...cradling the President's head in her lap, and the Lincoln bolted ahead as if the shots themselves had gunned the engine into life. Spurting to 70 m.p.h., it fled down the highway, rounding curves on two wheels. A Secret Service man, who had jumped onto the rear bumper of the car, flung himself across the trunk, and in his anger and frustration pounded it repeatedly with his fist...